Yet again the US President Obama shows
the world how unable he is to act like a statesman or cope with world
problems.
Obama was unwise to lay down a red line
over chemical weapons use, but once done, he should have acted
decisively. Instead we see the americans psyching themselves up,
explaining why they are certain that despite Assad's denials, it was
Syria which used the nerve gas Sarin to clear areas of Damascus of
the rebels who were gearing up for an offensive (Damascus is the
Assad regime's own red line. Assad can not afford to lose much more
of that city or indeed of the areas beyond it needed to protect the
alawite homelands). Yet now Obama says he won't attack until he gets the authorization from Congress. Obama is just like the blustering man threatening to fight, yet secretly happy when he's held back. Such behavior doesn't impress on the world stage.
After lightweight David Cameron's posturing, the
British people put him in his place. Britain has little more stomach
for exerting its imperial will anymore, especially as British
bodybags are still regularly returning from Afghanistan. Britain is
now detached from any attack on the Assad regime, which is just as
well. Enough damage was done in Libya to the region's security.
Obama has dearly wished to avoid
attacking Assad and will when he finally gets the okay from Congress
to mount an attack, will do the minimum necessary to show that he means
what he says. But the fact is that nobody believes a word Obama says,
not in the middle east, not in China, Russia, or in the
Philippines, Japan or Taiwan.
USA policy in the middle east is seen
as supporting islamist Turkey, the Muslim Brotherhood, and extremist
jihadists in Syria rather than the secular moderates. The egyptian military which decided to take back their country after the popular uprising has thumbed its nose at British and USA cries of 'democracy'. Egyptians had enough of being dragged into the middle ages by Morsy. Egyptians understood what the West, even after the Hamas coup don't understand, that islamists like the nazis, take power through the ballot box to impose tyranny, oppression of minorities and the police state. That is not what people in the west understand by the word 'democracy', but its good enough for western journalists and politicians.
Thanks to support of islamists, the secular
opposition cause in Syria is all but lost now because of this with two sides of
islam, shia and sunni slugging it out against each other. As someone who cares about Israel above all, I find it hard to cry for a secular opposition in Syria who repeatedly in the past have shouted their hatred of the Jewish People and Israel. If people want to be my enemies, to destroy Israel for no reason, then i'm not going to cry that they are suffering. If people are so full of hatred, pull up the drawbridge and let them get on with it. Yet Israel does not do that, it has set up a field hospital on the syrian border, and treats their wounded when they come by. I can't fathom the goodness of Israel's leaders. Why spend tiny Israel's limited means on helping its enemies? Surely the funds spent should go on reinforcing still undefended schools and nurseries in Sderot and surrounding communities from Hamas missiles?
The utter depravity of this islamic
conflict was brought home with a video on youtube of 3 truck driversstopped at a jihadist checkpoint. After ascertaining that these men
were shia/alawite, they were executed.
It is horrific to watch, almost
impossible for a western mind to comprehend, but Obama has favored a
side in Syria that kills people purely on account of their religion.
What could be more harmless, more normal than truck drivers, working
to keep their families fed? But they were marked out for
extermination by the jihadists, so proud of their guns, their black
flag and their demonic music.
On the other side is Assad, every bit
as cruel, as his opponents, and he has used chemical weapons on a
frequent basis, with the latest massacre of around 1500 people. He
should be punished, but that punishment should have been swift and
uncompromising. Instead Assad has been allowed to move his strategic
assets out of harms way, and the american attack will in any case be
most likely no more than a pin prick.
That pin prick will not deter Assad,
but it could very well see Israel attacked and dragged into the war
by the Assad regime, Hezbollah and Iran which time and again have
reiterated their intention to attack Israel. Hopefully Israel's
warnings will be enough to prevent them from doing this, but anything
can happen with crazed fanatics.
The USA should not attack at all, if it
does not intend to inflict major damage on Assad.
Just making a show of an attack will
further destabilize the middle east, bringing Israel into the
conflict and possibly tearing Lebanon apart in the process, not that
I have much sympathy for the duplicitous Lebanese who are allies one
day and your enemies the next.
The wises course is that Israel has
taken until now, to sit and watch the lunatics killing each other,
and be thankful they are too engaged to think about you. Thanks to
Obama, the lunatics are going to be given the pretext to drag
neutral Israel into the fighting.
Hopefully this won't happen, that Obama
will have his little fireworks party over Syria, and the islam
inspired blood crazed fanatics will be content to continue their
warfare without expanding their war Israel. Unlike Obama's total lack
of interest in what will happen to ally Israel if he puts on a show
to salvage what little respect is left for the USA nowadays (and
losing even that in the process), Netanyahu has made it clear how
intense will be Israel's response if it is attacked.
Netanyahu will reestablish Israel's
deterrent credentials if attacked, and then let the barbarians next
door carry on as usual, tearing themselves apart.
Those who have been so intent on
murdering jews for so many years, the Assad regime, the palestinian
arabs and Hezbollah who have spilled so much blood in Israel, are now
punishing themselves. Good luck to them.
The G-d of Israel works in strange ways
to protect his people.
